Recently published Ornithological Works. 137 
Collocalia francica. Brachypteracias leptosomus. 
Caprimulgus madagascariensis. op squamigera. 
5 enarratus. 7 crossleyi. 
Leptosomus discolor 3. by pittoides. 
” ” Q & juv. 
Atlas, pt. 2. vol. 1. 
Nectarinia souimanga. Ellisia madagascariensis typica. 
A notata. x " , var. filicum. 
Neodrepanis coruscans. .; x , var. lantzil. 
Philepitta castanea ?. Thamnornis chloropetoides. 
:. schlegelii 2. Cisticola madagascariensis. 
a castanea ¢. Dromeeocercus brunneus. 
. schlegelii g. Calamodyta newtonii. 
Eroessa tenella. Pratincola torquata. 
Zosterops madagascariensis. Motacilla flaviventris. 
Hartlaubius madagascariensis. | Copsychus albospecularis typicus. 
Falculia palliata. % op , var. pica. 
Hypherpes corallirostris. Cossypha imerina. 
Mystacornis crossleyi. ‘5 sharpel. 
Bernieria madagascariensis. Hypsipetes madagascariensis. 
37  Zosterops. Tylas eduardi. 
Oxylabes madagascariensis. », madagascariensis. 
»,  xanthophrys. 
It is quite evident that when this work is complete we shall 
have a better account of the avifauna of Madagascar than of 
that of many much longer-known parts of the world’s surface. 
But the Madagascarian ornis is of so strange a character that 
it well merits all the attention that can be paid to it. 
14. ‘Philosophical Transactions,’ Vol. 168 (Natural History 
of the Transit Expeditions). 
[An Account of the Petrological, Botanical, and Zoological Collections 
made in Kerguelen’s Land and Rodriguez during the Transit-of-Venus 
Expeditions carried out by order of Her Majesty’s Government in the 
years 1874-75. (Phil. Trans. 168, extra volume.) London, 1879, 
Of Mr. Sharpe’s ornithological contributions to the present 
volume, which were issued in advance of the complete work, 
we have already spoken (see Ibis, 1877, p. 479, and 1879, 
p. 216). But besides these, we find in the complete work, 
now issued as the 168th volume of the ‘ Transactions of the 
